Microsoft and Amazon exchange acerbic blog posts, accusing each other of underhanded tactics in their fight over the DoD JEDI cloud infrastructure contract
this time against Pentagon's corrective action Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central : Microsoft and Amazon trade more jabs in fight over DoD JEDI contract Ashley Stewart / Business Insider : Amazon slams Microsoft for ‘posturing’ … Brandy Betz / Seeking Alpha : Amazon files another JEDI cloud contract challenge CNBC : Amazon and Microsoft trade barbs over JEDI contract appeal Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Amazon Replies to Latest Microsoft JEDI Accusations David Canellis / The Next Web : Amazon and Microsoft won't stop beefing over the Pentagon's $10B ‘war cloud’ SiliconANGLE : In new protest, Amazon calls JEDI cloud contract award to Microsoft ‘fatally flawed’ Joel Khalili / TechRadar.com : AWS files another JEDI complaint against Microsoft Adam Mazmanian / Federal Computer Week : New AWS protest spawns JEDI blog wars Andrew Eversden / Federal Times : Amazon challenges the Pentagon's revised JEDI solicitation directly to the department Frank X. Shaw / Microsoft on the Issues : Microsoft communications VP, Frank Shaw, says Amazon has filed another protest against Microsoft's JEDI deal, this time out of public view, directly with DoD Tweets: @darcy_lussier : Quite a public take from a senior VP at AWS https://aws.amazon.com/... https://twitter.com/... Hal Berenson / @halberenson : @gcaughey Yes. And there is very little that will cause Amazon to join in on mudslinging, but Frank went over that line. The last two bullets on Amazon's response are not things you normally see from Amazon https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ... Steven Schooner / @profschooner : /28a OK then, lets litigate bid protests in the “court of public opinion:” @awscloud says @Microsoft published “self-righteous and pontificating blog posts that amount to nothing more than misleading noise intended to distract those following the protest.” https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ... Nathan / @natenovs : Wow throwing around COVID in your criticism is gross af https://aws.amazon.com/... Mat Velloso / @matvelloso : Amazon: “Since we filed our protest, we've been clear in our intent: we don't think the JEDI award was adjudicated fairly” The company that fires workers protesting for rights like sick leave believes in protesting for fairness, that's a relief. Ginny Caughey / @gcaughey : I'm by no means an Amazon hater, but my company lives by RFPs and fair is fair. I'm with Frank here: https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ... Tom Simonite / @tsimonite : “Microsoft has published multiple self-righteous and pontificating blog posts that amount to nothing...Microsoft is doing an awful lot of posturing...Microsoft wants us to just be quiet and go away.” Amazon's JEDI blog post must have been fun to write https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ... @theregister : Microsoft says Amazon has filed a secret objection to the Pentagon after losing out on the $10bn JEDI cloud deal https://www.theregister.co.uk/ ... As you can imagine, in response to this revelation, Amazon is taking it well... https://aws.amazon.com/... https://twitter.com/... Mehedi Hassan / @mehedih_ : Amazon said fuck Microsoft 🙃 https://aws.amazon.com/... https://twitter.com/... @amazonnews : Amazon's response to Microsoft's latest posturing on JEDI. https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ... Frank X. Shaw / @fxshaw : Great example of customer obsessed. 🤣 “nobody knowledgeable and objective believes that Azure has the better offering than AWS” https://mspoweruser.com/... John Furrier / @furrier : Microsoft Chief Comms @fxshaw person says to DoD that he's one of them.. At the end of the day may the best cloud win.. good luck. We will dig into it https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...